- Philosopher Peter Singer: ‘There’s no reason to say . . . - PressReader
Australian philosopher Peter Singer’s book Animal Liberation, published in 1975, exposed the realities of life for animals in factory farms and testing laboratories and provided a powerful moral basis for rethinking our relationship to them
- BBC - Ethics - Animal ethics: Moral status of animals
Which animals deserve moral consideration? The idea that non-human animals have significant moral status is comparatively modern It owes much to the work of philosopher Peter Singer
- Singer - The Value of Animals vs. Humans: An Interview on Ethics
Singer, a utilitarian, is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University In addition to his work on animal ethics, he is also regarded as the philosophical originator of a philanthropic social movement known as effective altruism, which argues for weighing up causes to achieve the most good
- Peter Singer is not Animal Liberation Now | DawnWatch
Based on my commitment to keep our movement informed of major media stories about animals, I recently sent out, on DawnWatch, a New York Times op-ed written by Peter Singer I did not comment on it, though I know my readers expect me to weigh in on what I send
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- Are Humans More Equal Than Other Animals? An Evolutionary . . . - Springer
Secular arguments for equal and exclusively human worth generally tend to follow one of two strategies
- Theories of Moral Considerability: Who and What Matters Morally?
According to ratiocentrism, adult humans deserve moral consideration because they are rational (i e , they act on reasons, not just on impulses or instincts) [4] Ratiocentrism has the plausible implication that if rational space aliens exist, they also deserve moral consideration
- Moral circle expansion: should animals, plants, and robots have the . . .
The process should not stop there,” Singer wrote in his 1981 book The Expanding Circle, adding that to stop at human beings would be arbitrary
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